Archive for November, 2007

Live today from CISCO at “Italy Silicon Valley Experience”

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I created an experimental video channel using Mogulus, and, connections/firewalls permitting, there will be a live video stream from the "Italy Silicon Valley Experience" (pdf of the program) event today at 6PM CET, on top of live blogging. You can connect to davidorban.com/video right now to check if you can see ...

Video

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Experimental video channel created using Mogulus. Please check back for live events! (Schedule will be posted on the main blog page as well...) Go to the main Mogulus channel to also enjoy its social functions, like real time chat, and others.

Vista conviced me. Now I own a Mac.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Watch the Apple ad on YouTube As a person who has to understand the daily life of non-professional computer users, I always gladly suffer through the pains of those who purchase the right away the new operating systems and the computers based on them as soon as they come out. That ...

Planet ready to say killing and death are wrong?

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Death is not the solution. Death is the problem. The UN has started the final procedures to put to a vote in front of the General Assembly a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. While not binding, the adoption of a resolution like this would be a further ...

Live blogging The Long Tail

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

17.20 Chris Anderson is in Milan at a conference, organized by 'The Ruling Companies', and a bunch of bloggers have been invited to cover the event live, so here I am, sitting in the first row, and listening to what is being said. I am actually curious to see if ...

Is the ‘long tail’ a genuinely new phenomenon?

Monday, November 12th, 2007

photo by benoutram 'The Long Tail' is the title of a book by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and of an apparently new phenomenon which many of us following the online worlds have come to understand from Chris's blog of the same name 'The Long Tail'. Put succintly, the concept of ...

Video of my panel at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I participated in the Virtual Worlds Forum conference in London, and I have now put online the video of the panel at which I spoke, as kindly allowed by Sasha Frieze who put the conference together with great results: "From e-tail to v-business: are virtual ...

The Metasocial Web - Video of my presentation at Web2.0 Expo Berlin

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Yesterday it was great talking at the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. Right after Tim O'Reilly's keynote, in the session called Ignite, in the large conference room packed with the over 2000 delegates, I spoke about the Metasocial Web: Follow the link to the Metasocial Web video on YouTube if you don't ...

Liveblogging at Web2.0 Expo in Berlin

Monday, November 5th, 2007

09.00 The organization at the Web2.0 Expo is excellent, as well as public transportation in Berlin. I am sure there are a lot of people living here, but they don't bother each other too much! It is easy to get around and arrive in time where you want to. Little ...

Speaking at Web2.0 Ignite tomorrow about the Metasocial Web

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Well, that was fast. I thought of the Metasocial Web a few days ago, and looks like I will be delivering a speech about it at Web2.0 Ignite in Berlin tomorrow. A lot of what the Metasocial Web should be is in flux, naturally, so it will be good to get ...